Some students take a stroll over Canadian Geographic’s vinyl floor map depicting “Canada’s Energy
Mix,” which was paid for by the oil-and-gas industry. FACEBOOK

Hundreds of Vancouver students, parents and teachers
have signed an angry open
letter to Canadian Geographic, complaining that the
magazine has been sending
a giant energy-industry-sponsored educational map and
materials to local schools.
So far nine Vancouver
schools have requested a copy
of the “Canada’s Energy Mix”
vinyl floor map and a related
trunk of materials, which encourage students to engage
in exercises such as mapping
T:10”out pipeline routes.

The “Energy IQ” program
was paid for by the Canadian
Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP), Canada’s most
influential oil-and-gas lobbyist, and produced by teachers
working for Canadian Geographic’s educational branch.
“Schools are public places,
and therefore should be free
of advertisements or promotions of companies, interest
groups and other for-profit
institutions,” reads the letter,
written by two Windermere
Secondary School students
and signed by more than 500
people. “Propaganda has no
place in our schools.”
One photo on Canadian
Geographic’s Facebook page
shows the map being used
by a Grade 3 class in Kitimat,
the terminus point of the
proposed Northern Gateway
pipeline.
Canadian Geographic content creation vice-president
Gilles Gagnier said the program focuses only on the
facts about Canada’s energy
resources.

“CAPP is funding the project, but Canadian Geographic has 100 per cent editorial
control over all content and
would never do a program of
any kind with anyone where
we didn’t,” he said.
A secondary-school district principal told Metro
it’s fairly common for sponsored materials to be used in
high schools to spark critical
thinking.
But David Livingstone Elementary principal Bridgete
Browning suggested Grade 3
is “a bit young” for teachers
to be using such materials,
and trying to explain to students the nuances of perspective.
“I would say Grade 6
(would be the appropriate
point) to be able to critically
discuss and look at perspective…. Little ones tend to be
much more linear in
their thinking.”
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Millions of dollars worth of
cocaine, cash seized by cops

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Busted. Officer says
he can’t recall in his
30 years of policing
‘a bigger seizure
than this one’
SAM
SMITH

vancouver@metronews.ca

Millions of dollars worth
of cocaine and hundreds of
thousands of dollars in cash
were seized Nov. 9 after
Vancouver police raided an
apartment on the 1100 block
of Quebec Street.
Inside, police found several safes. After cracking them,
cops open found the cash
and 54 kilograms worth of
plastic- and bubble-wrapped
cocaine packages.
Supt. Mike Porteous believes the dealers were supplying the Downtown Eastside and that this seizure will
be a significant disruption to
the distribution of cocaine in
that area.
“In my 30 years of policing, I don’t recall a bigger
seizure than this one by Vancouver police,” he said.
Cops first entered the
apartment at 4 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 8 after arresting
two men in their 30s, believed to be in possession of

Millions of dollars worth of cocaine and hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash were seized by police on Nov. 9 from an apartment on the 1100 block of
Quebec Street. SAM SMITH/FOR METRO

cocaine, who were seen entering and leaving the building.

The apartment was unoccupied. After police received a search warrant Sat-

urday morning, they were
able to seize the money and
drugs from the safes.

No charges have been laid
yet as police are still documenting evidence.

Minster seeks help from conflict commissioner

Pat Pimm THE CANADIAN PRESS FILE

British Columbia’s agriculture minister is seeking guidance from the province’s
conflict-of-interest commissioner on the thorny issue of
his lobbying of the Agricultural Land Commission (ALC),
says Premier Christy Clark.
Clark said Tuesday that Pat
Pimm has written to Conflict
Commissioner Paul Fraser
and asked him to provide advice to all B.C. MLAs about
situations in which their dut-

ies collide with the independent commission that protects
farmland.
“I understand that the ALC
is absolutely an independent
body,” she said. “Its independence must be respected. At
the same time, MLAs must
be able to bring forward concerns and issues on behalf
of their constituents, as Mr.
Pimm did.”
Clark did not respond to
questions about whether

Pimm should step down from
cabinet while the issue is being reviewed.
Fraser confirmed he has
received a letter from Pimm.
“I have agreed to look into
the matter and render an
opinion to him,” Fraser said
in a brief interview.
Last August, the land
commission blasted Pimm’s
efforts on behalf of a local
constituent in Fort St. John to
have land removed from the

agricultural reserve to build
rodeo grounds and a campsite.
Pimm wrote to the commission to express his concern about their decision to
reject the application. He
also had his ministerial assistant contact the commission
about the file. Cabinet documents leaked to the Globe
and Mail suggest Pimm also
proposed sweeping changes
to the ALC. THE CANADIAN PRESS

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Butt bins. City rolls out
pilot project to filter out
used smokes from streets
Vancouver’s new cigarette recycling program — the first
of its kind in the world — is a
breath of fresh air.
“I cannot tell you how many
times I hear from people about
the problem of litter on our
streets — especially cigarette
butts,” Vancouver Coun. Andrea Reimer said at a news conference announcing the 110
recycling receptacles as part of
a pilot project.
When people place cigarettes in the so-called “butt
bins,” recycling company TerraCycle deconstructs them into
organic parts for compost and
cellulose acetate, a plastic used
in industrial products.
Vancouverites were impressed by the pilot program.
“I always put (butts) in the
garbage — I try to be respectful,” said resident Sherri. “I
think these are very productive

A man disposes of his cigarette in
a “butt bin,” one of 110 adorning
Vancouver’s streets as of Tuesday.
EMILY JACKSON/METRO

things.”
The only irritated folks
seemed to be those who pick
up cigarette butts to roll their
own smokes — though, TerraCycle noted they can do that
first and deposit the filter afterward. Emily Jackson/Metro

Roommates Addison Boyer, 26, and Hiran Perera, 28, stand in front of their home near Commercial-Broadway. They just got tenant insurance from Square One
after initially being rejected by more than 30 companies. EMILY JACKSON/METRO

31st
time’s
the
charm
Surrey. Police recover car
tied to hit-and-run of
wheelchair-bound man for insurance seekers
The vehicle that struck 19-yearold Jonathan Forero — a Surrey
man who suffers from a brittle
bone condition — tossing him
off his wheelchair and causing
significant damage to his body
has been recovered by police.
“Thanks to a tip received
from an observant member
of the public who recalled the
vehicle’s description from a
news broadcast, investigators
have recovered a purple 2000
Honda Civic they believe to be
involved in this incident,” said
Cpl. Bert Paquet in a media release on Tuesday.
Forero was in his motorized wheelchair heading west-

bound on the north side of
95A Avenue with his girlfriend
when the driver smashed into
him from behind. The driver
then took off west on 132nd
Street.
Forero is still in hospital
with numerous injuries, including a broken clavicle and
several lower body fractures.
RCMP are still investigating
the incident in order to confirm the driver of the vehicle.
Anyone with further information is asked to contact Surrey RCMP at 604-599-0502, or
anonymously with Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS.
Sam Smith/For Metro

Back to Square One.
Local company grants
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roommate policy

rejected them for being “too
risky,” Perera and his roommates can relax after a local
company decided to insure
them.
Square One granted the
roommates a policy for about
$30 a month — about 10
times cheaper than initial
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said Tuesday.
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Last week, young professional Hiran Perera couldn’t do we limit this to three
get tenant insurance unless roommates? Where did three
he paid an exorbitantly high come from? Everyone just
rate because he lived with limits it to three roommates
three unrelated people. ButT:10”so we did,” Mirkovic said.
this week, after 30 companies “We thought, OK, this doesn’t

make sense.”
Not only did the company
insure these roommates, but
it’s also working on a comprehensive policy for roommates
that it expects to launch in
2014, Mirkovic said.
“Particularly with the
price of real estate, more
people are going down the
path of having roommates,”
he said. “This kind of really
jumped out at us as one of
the old-school ways of thinking that doesn’t necessarily
make sense today.”
Since there tends to
be a higher risk of things
“mysteriously disappearing”
when people live with un-

related parties, the roommate
policies will have a higher deductible for theft.
Each policy will also be
tailored to roommates’ specific situations — for instance, a
house of frat boys could expect a higher rate than a condo of doctors. The company
will also look into policies in
case just one of four people
wants tenant insurance.
As for Perera, he “can’t tell
you how nice it is” to have
the insurance sorted. With
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Underage
victims not
sex ‘workers,’
expert says
Media mistakes.
Study suggests focus
shift to perpetrators
Print-media editors and reporters are reinforcing stereotypes of underage victims of
commercial sexual exploitation by too often referring to
them as engaging in “work,”
rather than as victims, according to a new study by a UBC
researcher.
Nursing professor and
former journalist Elizabeth
Saewyc, who specializes in
adolescent health issues, and
a team of about 10 researchers, spent four years sifting
through 835 articles published over 20 years.
The articles all referenced
acts of criminal commercial
sexual exploitation, defined
as plying or coercing juveniles
with money, food, transportation, drugs, housing, or other
goods and services to get them
to engage in sexual acts.
Saewyc’s study, which was
recently published in the Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality, found that print stories
rarely focus on perpetrators,
and often portray images of
only teen girls being pimped,
even though surveys show
boys and girls are equally like-

ly to be commercially sexually
exploited.
“There was a story in the
Globe and Mail in 2007 called
‘Hundreds of young girls
work Winnipeg’s sex trade,’”
Saewyc said, offering one example of the issue.
“Talking about it as a profession, as a business, as an
industry, as work, the problem with that is that in some
places that actually implies to
people that the (youths) are
actually choosing to do this,
and it takes away some of the
emphasis on the people who
are purchasing and who are
therefore abusing the youth.
“It’s sort of like if we were
writing about the sexual
abuse of children and youth
by teachers or coaches or parish priests as ‘relationships’ as
opposed to abuse.”
She urged news media to
stop referring to children and
teens as being involved in a
“trade” and to put more focus
on pimps and predators.
She acknowledged that
some older teens might engage in sex work or the sex
trade “willingly” in some
sense, but until they have
reached the age of consent
— 18 or 19, depending on the
province or territory — the
media should refer to them as
victims. Kate Webb/Metro

Car smashes into Richmond 7-Eleven
An employee at a Richmond 7-Eleven is in hospital with non-life-threatening injuries after a car smashed through the brick wall of the store Tuesday
morning. The car launched into the building at Blundell and No. 3 Road after the driver allegedly lost control and hit a rubber curb in the parking lot,
according to RCMP. Three employees were inside, but only one was taken to hospital. The driver was the only occupant of the vehicle. courtesy RCMP

Inquest: Man approved for
firearm despite troubled history
In February 2012, Angus
Mitchell’s rifle was seized because he walked into a Vancouver Island doctor’s office
carrying the weapon.
The rifle was returned and
a month later Mitchell used
it to kill a man and woman
and seriously injure his landlord, coroner’s lawyer Rodrick
MacKenzie told a B.C. inquest.
Days after the shootings,
and hours after police issued
a public warning about
Mitchell, they confronted the

26-year-old in a wooded area
of Maple Ridge and shot him
dead.
The inquest heard that
Mitchell was granted a firearms licence even though a
background check showed
that there had been previous police complaints lodged
against him for uttering
threats, being involved in a
verbal altercation and in a
confrontation at a rooming
house.
Terry Hamilton, chief fire-

arms officer for B.C. and the
Yukon, testified on Tuesday
that since Mitchell was never
charged, her office approved
his licence application. “Bad
temper is not sufficient
grounds to deny somebody a
firearms license,” she told the
jury.
After Mitchell’s gun was
seized, a Victoria police constable investigating the matter emailed the firearms officer in charge of Mitchell’s
case, citing some concerns.

The email, according to
lawyer Kevin Woodall, who
is representing Const. Lane
Douglas-Hunt, revealed that
Mitchell had recently terminated his lease, and that he
had written a disturbing note
to his landlord earlier in the
year.
Douglas-Hunt later told the
inquest the landlord told her
that Mitchell is “a weird guy,
he’s not very nice, he’s anti-social and he’s got some mental
issues.” THE CANADIAN PRESS

‘Anonymous’ condoms cause
uproar at Calgary university
‘Anonymously get
inside.’ What creators
say was an ‘innocent
joke’ called ‘borderline
rape paraphernalia’ by
student newspaper
Jeremy
nolais

Metro in Calgary

Students at Calgary’s Mount
Royal University have come
under intense scrutiny after
planning to distribute up to
1,000 condoms with the message “Anonymously get inside”
on them.
Those most bothered by
the initiative, steered by administrators with the MRU
Confessions Facebook page,
are alleging it “promotes rape
culture” and are demanding an
apology.

While the moderators of the
page said Tuesday they intend
to solicit a new slogan from
one of nearly 7,000 followers
of their Facebook page, they
maintained the condoms were
meant as an “innocent joke.”
“We weren’t made aware
of the gravity of it until people
started mentioning it to us publicly.... I’ll say that, on our part,
maybe we should have thought
it through,” said one man, who
identified himself as “Admin2.”

Tensions at Mount Royal’s
campus came to a head after
an opinion piece was published
by staff with the student newspaper, The Reflector, which
deemed the condoms “borderline rape paraphernalia.”
The Facebook page’s administrators dismissed those
claims as “absurd,” and said the
slogan was a play on an event
called “Masked Anonymous”
they hosted for Mount Royal
students in October.

The controversial slogan on these condoms has come under intense criticism
from peers and faculty at Calgary’s Mount Royal University. facebook

Laval, Que. Three girls
suffer minor injuries after
car crashes into daycare
Three young girls escaped
with minor injuries Tuesday
after a car smashed through
the plate-glass window of the
daycare centre they attended.
The children were rushed
to hospital for treatment
along with the driver of the
car, an 80-year-old woman
who suffered shock and minor injuries to her back, said
Const. Franco Di Genova.
The three girls were aged
three, four and five years
old and were not seriously
injured, Di Genova said, adding one of them had been
released from hospital and

another was expected to be
sent home by the end of the
afternoon.
One little girl was either
hit by the vehicle or flying
debris and suffered wounds to
her face, said Di Genova. She
was expected to be released
from hospital on Wednesday.
A doctor at Montreal’s SteJustine Hospital said she is
stable and that the injuries
could have been much worse.
“We’re pleased the injuries
are not as serious as we could
imagine given the situation,”
said Dr. Antonio D’Angelo.
the canadian press

Toronto Mayor Rob Ford still holding his head up
Toronto Mayor Rob Ford holds a bobblehead doll of himself at Toronto’s city hall on Tuesday. Hundreds lined up to be the first to own the doll, the proceeds
of which go to charity. The $20 bobbleheads were restricted to one per person, and with only 1,000 made, they quickly sold out. Meanwhile, despite intense
pressure on him to step down, his brother Coun. Doug Ford insisted the he would not, saying, “He has to keep busy.” Frank Gunn/the canadian press

Philippines aid efforts pick up,
but massive needs still unmet
Tacloban. The city of
220,000 bore the full
force of the winds
and the tsunami-like
storm surges Friday
Relief operations in this
typhoon-devastated
region
of the Philippines picked up
pace Wednesday, but the minimal amounts of water, food
and medical supplies reaching the hardest-hit areas were
causing increasingly desperate survivors to take matters
into their own hands.
In the first reported
deaths as a result of looting,
eight people were crushed to
death when a wall collapsed
as they and thousands of
others stormed a rice warehouse on Leyte Island, the
worst-hit region by Friday’s
storm, said National Food
Disaster relief

Canadian military
team reaches
the Philippines
A Canadian reconnaissance team landed Tuesday in the Philippines for
talks with local officials
on how best to provide
military help to the Southeast Asian country in the
wake of last week’s vicious
typhoon.
But Canada’s larger military Disaster Assistance
Response Team, which deployed for the Philippines

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Authority spokesman Rex
Estoperez.
The looters in Alangalang
municipality Tuesday carted
away up to 100,000 sacks of
rice, he said.
Since the storm, people
have broken into homes,
malls and garages, where they
have stripped the shelves of
food, water and other goods.
Authorities have struggled to
stop the looting. There have
been unconfirmed reports
of armed gangs involved in
some instances.
The incident shows the
urgency in getting food and
water distributed to the disaster zone.
Aviation authorities said
two more airports in the region had reopened, allowing
for more aid flights.
Tacloban city was almost
completely destroyed in Friday’s typhoon and has become the main relief hub.
the associated press

on Monday, is currently in
Hawaii, waiting for specifics on how and where it
can help.
Defence Minister Rob
Nicholson said the DART
will be available “at a moment’s notice” once the
Canadian advance team
has provided its assessment.
The advance team includes 17 Canadian Forces
personnel and about a
dozen civilians, mainly
from Foreign Affairs, the
minister added. They arrived Tuesday morning in
the capital, Manila.
the canadian press

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The aftermath

Most of Tacloban is in
ruins, a tangled mess of
destroyed houses, cars
and trees. Malls, garages
and shops have all been
stripped of food and water
by hungry residents.
• 8 crushed to death when
thousands looted government rice warehouse.
• 1,883 confirmed dead.
• At least 2,487 people
hurt.
• 11 million people affected by storm, UN
humanitarian affairs
estimates.
• No reports so far of Canadian deaths or injuries.
Philippine military personnel try to prioritize children and women first as people wait for evacuation flights in
Tacloban, central Philippines, Tuesday. Wally Santana/the associated press
Mexico City

Gunmen kill
deported
Montreal man
Mexican authorities said
Monday that they are
investigating the shooting
death of an Italian man
linked to organized crime
in Montreal who was killed
inside a restaurant in the
resort city of Acapulco.
Guerrero state prosecutors said witnesses told
investigators the man was
sitting at a table Sunday
night inside an Italian

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restaurant on Acapulco’s
main tourist thoroughfare
when two men approached
him, one of whom pulled
out a gun and shot him in
the back and head.
Prosecutors said in a
statement released Monday that they have contacted the Italian Embassy
in Mexico City to send the
body back to Italy.
The Mexican media
identified the man as
68-year-old Moreno Gallo,
who served time in Canada and was ultimately
deported in January 2012
for his links to organized
crime. the canadian press

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Lesbians targeted

5 women jailed
under Senegal’s
anti-gay law
Senegalese police detained
five women accused of
violating the country’s
anti-gay law, highlighting
increased pressure on
suspected lesbians in the
deeply conservative West
African nation, an activist
group said Tuesday.
The five women were
detained early Monday
morning during a birthday
party at a restaurant in

Dakar’s Yoff district that
has been described in
the Senegalese press as a
meeting point for gay men
and lesbians, said Ndeye
Kebe, president of the
activist group Women’s
Smile.
The oldest of the
suspects, 31-year-old Sene
Dieng, is an assistant director at Women’s Smile,
the only group in Senegal
to advocate for lesbians’
rights. The five women
were expected to appear
in court Tuesday, though
Kebe said they had been
unable to afford a lawyer.
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Organic farmers
concerned about
new GE apple
The Society for a GE-Free BC
and the Canadian Biotechnology Action Network are
worried a new genetically engineered apple that
doesn’t brown will lead to
GE contamination in other
crops if introduced in Canada. The canadian press

metronews.ca
Wednesday, November 13, 2013

Security. Study says clear
policies needed for drones
A groundbreaking research
report on drones urges government to create policies about
the sort of personal information flying drones are allowed
to collect before Canadian
police and others begin using
them on a large scale
It says unmanned aerial
vehicles, or UAVs, can offer potentially significant cost savings

for police and could be useful
for responding to emergencies or performing mundane
chores.
However, the “potential for
intrusive and massive surveillance” means public discussion
is needed to reassure Canadians
they will not be arbitrarily
spied on.
The canadian press

Cybercrime. 19-year-old
secretly photographed
beauty queen and other
young women with
their own webcams

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into the computers of at least a
dozen women, including Miss
Teen USA Cassidy Wolf.
“I hacked several girls’
computers and, using their
webcams, took photos of them
when they weren’t aware,”
Jared James Abrahams said in

Threats

“Your dream of being
a model will be transformed into a porn star.”
Jared James Abrahams to Cassidy Wolf,
according to an FBI affidavit.

court.
Abrahams faces up to 11
years in prison and fines of up
to $1 million.
Court records say he sent
the
women
anonymous
emails telling them he had
downloaded nude photos of
them. He told them he would
publish the images on social

media sites if they didn’t send
him additional pictures or undress for him. At least two of
his victims gave in to his demands.
In Wolf’s case, Abrahams
was able to take nude photos
of her without her knowledge,
authorities said. He posted a
naked photo of Wolf online
after she didn’t respond to
him.
Abrahams told the judge
he has autism and has been
under treatment for the past
10 years. He said he was on
three medications Tuesday,
but he said they wouldn’t affect his ability to enter a guilty
plea. The associated press

The performance artist who
was arrested after stripping
naked and nailing his scrotum to the cobblestones of
Red Square has been released.
Pyotr Pavlensky, 29, drove a
nail through his genitals on
Sunday while sitting on Russia’s most famous square be-

fore police took him to the
hospital and then to custody.
A court dismissed charges
of “petty hooliganism” and
released him Monday. Metro
spoke with Pavlensky to find
out how he managed to perform his stunt.
Q: How did you pull this stunt
before they could stop you?
A: I understood that there is
surveillance everywhere. But

I had an advantage because
every other illegal protest on
Red Square has people waving flags and is very visible.
The police can react on such
things.
Q: What was the message
behind your performance?
A: I heard that when conditions
are bad in prison, convicts drive
nails into their bodies. To this I
added an act of humility be-

fore my country. What I mean
is that people find what is excessive, on what nails them
but they do nothing. It makes
them feel helpless.

eye! When I was nailing my testicles I wasn’t scared at all, but
when I was preparing (for the
stunt), I was. All the fears and
phobias doubled up.

Q: Did you speak with
doctors about the possible
consequences of such performance?
A: I didn’t notice any consequences to my health. You
know, I didn’t try to nail my

Q: How did you prepare?
A: I thought about my clothes.
And I tried to undress quickly. I
had to be sure that I could take
off my clothes in 40 seconds.
Otherwise, the stunt could
fail.

No stranger to pain

• In 2012, the artist sewed
his mouth shut with a
coarse thread in support
of Pussy Riot.
• In May this year, in a
demonstration called
“Carcass,” Pavlensky
wrapped his naked
body in a “cocoon” of
barbed wire until he
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in Allendale, Mich., prior to it being reinstalled Tuesday. It was removed
in September due to safety concerns as the cable had begun to fray as
students used it to mimic a Miley Cyrus video.
Chris Clark/The Grand Rapids Press/the associated press

Was she playing Miley?
Spanish woman sues
piano-playing neighbour
To most people, noise pollution
is a jet engine roaring over their
head. For one Spanish woman,
it was a neighbour practising
piano.
The woman has taken her
neighbours in the apartment
below — a 27-year-old pianist
and her parents — to court.
Now prosecutors want to send
all three to jail for over seven
years on charges of psychological damage and noise
pollution.
Neighbours often complain
about street and bar noise in
Spain, but prosecutors seeking
jail time for someone playing

the piano is unheard of — especially since that musician
is now a professional concert
pianist.
At the trial in the northeastern city of Gerona, Sonia Bosom
claimed she suffered noise pollution from 2003 to 2007 due to
the five-days-a-week, eight-hour
practice sessions of Laia Martin.
Martin, 27, denies that she
played at home that often.
On Monday, the El Pais newspaper reported that Bosom told
the court she now hates pianos
so much she can’t even stand to
see them in a film.
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A good nanny
is hard to find
Although it seems there’s
no shortage of help-wanted and job-seeker postings
for temporary workers
online, some say finding
a temporary worker is
harder than some might
think.
Melissa Namer, a
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provider to look after her
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school, said she’s had no
luck finding a temporary
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BALONEY IS AS BALONEY DOES
derman, who is worth $100 million US accordThe Internet has changed everything, from
ing to CelebrityNetWorth.com, mainly on the
shopping to sex.
strength of AshleyMadison.com. There is no acIt’s even changed cheating. There’s a web
tual Ashley Madison, but that hasn’t stopped
site based in Toronto called Ashley Madison
over 17 million people from trying to hook up
that caters to consenting married people lookwith her.
ing for an affair.
Biderman told Barbara Walters on The View
And it makes no bones about it: “Life is
that the reason the site is so popular is that it foshort. Have an affair” is the tag line.
cuses on the needs of adult female cheetahs —
The site contends that there are zillions of
and nothing attracts a male of the species more
other like-minded cheaters just like you lookthan a female of the same species.
ing for a dangerous liaison. But one woman says
So it’s important that Ashleymadison.etc is
many of the adventurous females on the site
JUST SAYIN'
fully stocked with attractive adult female cheeare fake profiles.
tahs, even if they allegedly have to make up so
And she should know. She wrote ’em.
Paul Sullivan
many fakes that the profilers sustain $20-milSomeone named Doriana Silva claims she
metronews.ca
lion injuries.
wrote 1,000 fake profiles in three weeks, so
Faced with Ms. Silva’s not-so-shocking revelation, Ashleymany that she came down with severe carpal tunnel syndrome,
madison.etc is crying foul, contending that it’s “100 per cent auand is now suing the website for $20 million US for damages.
thentic” and the company “won’t give in to extortion.” It also
There’s no honour among cheats, apparently.
sent Business Insider pics of Doriana, taken from her Facebook
Ashley Madison is owned by Toronto businessman Noel Bi-

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page, riding a jet ski and playing the bongos, all taken since she
retired in alleged pain from writing fake profiles.
You have to wonder about someone who sues her employer
for damage to her wrists, then turns around and posts photos of
herself engaging in activities that require healthy wrists. Obviously, all those fake profiles damaged more than her wrists. It
spread to her brain.
There’s a lesson in all of this. In fact, probably more than
one. Let’s try to sort them out.
For example, it’s possible to make $100 million out of nothing. (Oh, and Noel Biderman is happily married and 100 per cent
faithful to his wife. Do as I say ...)
Or if that profile “WillingToBeWhateverYouWantMeToBe365” sounds too good to be true, it is.
Or Doriana? Why didn’t you listen to your lawyer when he
told you not to go on Facebook with the bongos?
Or you still don’t understand that the Internet is hazardous
to your health, and not just your wrists? Tried bird watching?
Or how about: It’s still the same old story, the fundamental
things apply: Baloney’s still baloney, as time goes by.
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Berlin hyper-lapse:
Credited as the vanguard of the hyper-lapse scene, Shahab Gabriel Behzumi’s
hyper-lapse of Berlin is said to have popularized the technique.

Welcome to London:

This hyper-lapse film made by Mattia Bicchi Photography shows London’s skyline from Canary Wharf to Tower Bridge over a period of three years.
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Seized Afghan
narcotics burned
More than 20 tonnes of drugs
and thousands of bottles of
alcohol were burned by Afghan
authorities in their fight against
the narcotics trade amid a fresh
surge in opium cultivation.
Government officials,
ambassadors and military
commanders gathered on a
mountainside outside Kabul to
burn the drugs, which were
seized from smugglers in recent
months. METRO

Narcotics burned

400
1,200
2,000
10,000
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kg of morphine

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• Afghanistan produces
more than 90 per cent of
the world’s opium, the
key ingredient of heroin.
• One kilo of dry opium
sells at $160 to $200. In
contrast, a kilo of wheat
pays only 41 cents.
• Since 2001, the U.S. has
spent $6.3 billion to
curb the Afghan opium
industry.

Government’s view

“This event shows our
increased capabilities
fighting drugs.”
Baz Mohammad Ahmadi, Afghan
deputy interior minister for counternarcotic programs
Ahmadi said the drugs were seized
over the past 10 months in and around
Kabul.
Mohammad Ibrahim Azhar, the deputy
counter-narcotics minister, said that
opium cultivation had increased this
year, but refused to provide details to
reporters before the official launch of
the upcoming 2013 drugs report.

Paris 2013:

Filmed in April, this hyper-lapse takes you through the streets of Paris from day
to night.

Twitter
to shame guys into marrying.
@metropicks asked: Metro’s Jessica Napier says it’s immature to
stalk exes on Facebook and watch
Pretty Little Liars. What do you
think is inappropriate for a late20-something?
@FraserAust: Excessive sleeping
around, and at the same time trying

New movie. The Best
Man Holiday follows a
traditional formula of
rivalries and rekindled
romances that are
all wrapped up in
a reunion
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The Return of the Secaucus
Seven sees a group of college friends come together 10
years after they were arrested
on the way to a 1970 peace
protest in Washington D.C.
In the 1979 film they
reminisce about the good
old days, flirt and establish
the basic theme of all reunion movies: “What’s a
little reunion without a little
drama?”
This weekend Terrence
Howard, Sanaa Lathan, Taye
Diggs and Morris Chestnut
are part of a core group of
college friends who put that
theory to the test in The
Best Man Holiday. As IMDB
says, expect “long-forgotten
rivalries and romances to be
ignited.”
The idea of seeing old
friends and frenemies after
a long break offers loads of
opportunities for drama and
comedy.
Romy and Michele’s High
School Reunion played their
high school 10th anniversary
get together for laughs. The
pair of friends big up their

The Best Man Holiday opens this weekend.
One more

More somber is Young Adult,
a Charlize Theron dramedy
about Mavis Grey (Theron),
a ghostwriter of novels for
teens who accepts an invite
for a baby shower from her
high school ex-boyfriend,
hoping that he will fall back

post Grade 12 adventures in
an effort to intimidate their
old friends.
“Well, I thought the whole
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comedic approach to the subject.
Mixing murder with nostalgia, it’s the story of Walter Baylor (Blackie Dammett,
father of the Red Hot Chili
Peppers’ singer Anthony
Kiedis), an unhinged nerd
seeking revenge during his
10th high school reunion as
payback for a mean prank
played on him during senior
year.
“One more move and she
gets a hole where she doesn’t
need one,” says Walter.
Grosse Pointe Blank takes
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to post school socials. John

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changing epiphany 10 years
after graduation.
“You know,” he says,
“when you started getting
invited to your 10-year high
school reunion, time is catching up.”
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his job. He’s a hit man.
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Julia Roberts

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Julia’s not
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Stickers?Suckers?
Atablecloth run
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Don’t expect Julia Roberts to
join Twitter anytime soon.
“It’s kind of like cotton candy,”
she says of social media in an
interview with Marie Claire. “It
looks so appealing and you just
can’t resist getting in there,
and then you just end up with
sticky fingers and it lasted
an instant.” Actually, Roberts
seems to stay away from the
Internet in general as much
as possible, making a point
of not Googling herself or
reading comments on articles
about her. “I have too much
potential for collapse. There’s
an anonymity that makes
people feel safe to participate
in hatefulness,” she explains.
“I like a good old-fashioned
fistfight if people are pissed off
at each other.”

Look. I am solidly in the
Jennifer Lawrence Can Do
No Wrong camp. She could
wear a coonskin cap and
shoes made out of coconut
husks and I’d be like, “Brava!”
But the critics don’t feel the
way I do about JLaw — they
are after the actress big time
about the Christian Dior
dress she wore to the U.K.
premiere of The Hunger
Games: Catching Fire on
Monday in London. “It
honestly looks like someone
crushed a bunch of multicoloured suckers and stuck
them onto the bottom half
of this dress,” opined one
blogger. And in a post titled,
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Money-making travel

How to turn
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Loren Christie
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Websites like couchsurfing.
com and airbnb.com are
seeing increased use by
travellers anxious to save on
their accommodation costs
by skipping hotels and bunking in with the locals. If you
are eager to make some extra
money and wouldn’t mind
having strangers sleeping in
your spare room, here’s how
to get started.
It costs nothing to sign
up but ensure you spend
time making your listing
enticing to potential guests.
Keep your title catchy and
concise. Upload quality
photos of your space —
don’t use blurry cellphone
snaps. The description of
your place should include
details on local attractions, the neighbourhood
and information on public

transit. Fill out the house
rules section so that your
guests can understand what
is expected of them before
booking. Do they have to
arrive before dinner? Is it
lights out after midnight?
Are pets allowed? Once the
booking is confirmed, Airbnb does not allow you to
impose any further rules.
It is up to you to decide
how much you charge. To
get an idea of pricing search
for similar listings in your
neighbourhood. You can set
different prices for nightly,
weekly and monthly stays, as
well as seasonal pricing. You
may want to consider imposing a cleaning fee as part of
your costs. Airbnb takes a
three per cent fee for each
reservation, which they say
covers the cost of processing
the transaction.
Quick and thorough
communication with
guests before they arrive is
essential. Check out their
profiles and reviews on the
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Brewers toast new liquor laws
Vancouver.
Microbrewers get a
boost as they begin
to open lounges
About once a week, Scott Greff
walks a block and a half from
where he lives in Vancouver’s
trendy Main Street district, a
large glass growler in hand, to a
small brewery nestled between
an otherwise unremarkable
strip of offices, storage bays and
auto shops.
Inside the three-month-old
tasting room at 33 Acres Brewing Co., Greff can fill up his
growler with about two litres
of any of the microbrewery’s
three different varieties (his favourite is 33 Acres of Life, a hybrid between a lager and ale). If
he isn’t in a hurry, he can grab a
glass of beer to stay, like he did
on this recent fall evening.
Even on a weeknight,
the brewery is teeming with
people, either saddled up to the
bar or huddled around several
tables in a sparsely decorated
white-coloured tasting room
that has an almost rustic cafe-

Pints at the 33 Acres Brewing Co. tasting lounge in Vancouver. the canadian press

teria feel. Outside, a popular
food truck sells fish tacos, leaving an aroma of hops and salsa
hanging in the air.
There are countless bars and
restaurants just a few blocks
away, but instead, Greff is here,
sipping on a beer that was
brewed in a production room
on the other side of the taps.
“It’s a lot more casual,” says
Greff. “It’s between a coffee
shop and a pub. ... And I love
the idea of a growler ... getting
it to go.”
33 Acres is one of a growing
number of microbreweries and

distilleries that have opened up
in recent years as Vancouver
undergoes something of a craft
beer renaissance, with more
than a dozen operations either
open or expected to open soon,
largely sprinkled throughout
the rapidly gentrifying industrial areas that skirt the city’s
downtown core.
And the city’s breweries —
not to mention craft beer aficionados — are about to receive
a boost, thanks to new liquor
laws that will allow them to
open full-scale lounges, serving
more of their own products on

site. Up until this year, provincial and municipal liquor laws
allowed breweries and distilleries to operate scaled-down tasting rooms that allowed customers to give products a try. They
could give away all the free
samples they wanted, but could
legally only sell each customer
a single 12-ounce glass before
cutting them off.
This past spring, the B.C.
government updated its legislation to allow so-called tasting
lounges, effectively lifting the
12-ounce cap. The City of Vancouver, which finalized its updated bylaws in July, says it expects to eventually hand out at
least 15 tasting lounge licences
to local breweries and distillers.
Josh Michnik, one of the
owners of 33 Acres, says there’s
something special about getting the beer directly from the
people who make it.
“I think it’s going that way
in multiple industries, not just
craft brewing, but also local
foods and local craft distilleries
— local everything,” he says.
“If people can get their products made by their neighbour,
why wouldn’t you?”
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During any semester, you will
inevitably miss a class or two —
hopefully not more!
The way you deal with missing your classes will speak to
your character as a student, as
well as impact your final grade
in many of your classes, either
directly or indirectly.
Here is my advice to make
sure those days you just can’t
make it don’t result in not making the grade.

Before you talk to
your professor
Read the syllabus
Remember that document that
your professor went over during the first class while you
were only half-listening? Yep.
That’s where you’ll find the
professor’s policy on missed
classes, as well as how it might
impact your grade. It will also
have an outline of what was going on during the class that you
missed.
So, make sure to check the
syllabus when your alarm simply didn’t go off or you have
that trusty case of “food poisoning.”
Ask around
After dutifully checking the
syllabus, move on to checking
whatever learning management system your professor
and school use, like Blackboard,
Canvas or Moodle.
Often, professors will post
the homework or class notes
there, to be accessed by all
members of your class.
Next, talk to classmates and

Only once you have done your best to get caught up should you contact the professor with specific questions
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get the notes from class or discuss what happened while you
were out.
Get any paperwork
Often, your reason for missing
class will be legitimate, but be
sure you can provide proper
documentation.
Your professors have seen it
before: After a suspicious number of grandparents “die” right
around the time when major
assignments are due, they
know to ask for documents to
support why you missed class.
This means anything from
an official notice from the university excusing your absence
to a filed police report or insurance claim from a fenderbender that caused your to miss
school.

When you talk to
your professor
Don’t ask “did I miss anything
important?”
The short answer here is that of
course you missed something
important. It might not seem
like it, but a typical 15-week,
three-hours-per-week course is
not a lot of time, and professors
design their courses to maximize the learning that can take
place.

everything that I missed?”
As a student, you missed class,
and therefore it is your responsibility to do everything in your
power to find out what you
missed before asking the professor. Many professors hold
class without lectures and prefer to engage in class discussion
or in-class work. An email that
requires that a professor rehash the class for you will not
endear you to them — and it
probably won’t happen.
Don’t ask “is it okay if I miss
class for _____ reason?”
Sometimes, you will know in
advance that you will need to
miss class — that happens.
Asking if you can miss class if

you’re already going to miss it
anyway won’t endear you to
any professor because it won’t
make a bit of difference if he or
she says no. If you have a legitimate excuse, then it doesn’t
matter what the professor says.
If you do not have a legitimate
excuse, asking permission uses
up the time and resources of
your professor without reason.
Don’t overshare
There is no need for a blow-byblow account of your gallbladder surgery or the intimate
details of your family dynamics that are keeping you from
attending class. Keep your reasons simple and on a need-toknow basis.

Reach out to teach

Here’s a sample email to send
to your professor when you
miss a class:
• Dear Professor So-and-So:
I am in your [insert class
name and time] and I will
be missing this [day of the
week]’s class on [insert topic
here — it will say in the
syllabus]. I will have proper
documentation from the
university that I can show
you during the following
class OR I understand that

this will impact my grade
in [insert consequence —
again, it will be in the syllabus]. I have already spoken
with [name of classmate]
about getting his notes,
and I will be sure to do the
reading/homework as well.
I will also come and talk to
you during your office hours
about any specific questions
about the content of the
reading or homework.Thank
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Fair thee well,
future employee!
Acing an on-site
extravaganza.
Career fairs bring
an opportunity
of discovery and
networking. These
guidelines will
prepare you for a
productive day!
Jessica
Cruz

TalentEgg.ca

Regardless of your industry of choice, chances are
there’s a career fair that
matches your interests.
Attending a career fair
can be a good way to complement your online research and networking and
there’s no harm in showing up when employers are
coming to meet individuals
just like you.
Where do I find out about
these fairs?
On campus: If you’re a student, you’re in luck! Campus recruiters visit career
fairs to hire students like
yourself. Check your career
centre’s website, online calendar or visit their office at
the beginning of the term.
Community listings: Community job fairs happen
all year. Check city or community event listings online. Keep a lookout for industry or company specific
job fairs in your area as
well. A quick search can reveal wonders.

Step right up!

Ask the right questions and
network
• Engage in a conversation
and be brief. Be clear
about your goals and
what you’re looking for.
• Ask questions about the
positions, requirements
and the representative’s
experiences with the
company. If your goals
are unclear, that’s fine
too. Think of the event
as an opportunity to
gather ideas about your
future.

resumés through appointments or workshops.
References: Keep your references tucked away with
your resumé and cover letters. On the spot interviews
can happen anytime or
company reps might scan
your resumé and ask for references.
Notepad/notebook/tablet:
Have tools for jotting notes,
contact information and
helpful details.
Pen: Make sure you have
one that works.
Business cards: It’s a great way
to give out your contact information in quick meeting settings.

Planning ahead

What do I wear?

Think about it like a marketing campaign. What’s
your purpose? What kind
of job or company are you
looking for? What are you
trying to learn? Having a
purpose will guide your
visit.
The first thing you
should look for is an online
employer listing. Knowing which companies will
attend can determine if a
particular fair is worth your
time. Some fairs might include an online floor plan,
company descriptions or
available positions.

Most career and job fairs have a
business casual dress code. You
want to make a good impression, but don’t overdo it. Contact the organizer or look at
past event photos if you aren’t
sure what the proper dress code
is.

What do I bring?
Resumés/cover
letters:
Bring a few copies in a
small folder or bag. Your
community
employment
centres and campus career
centres can help edit your

Listen
Make sure you put yourself out
there, but don’t talk more than
you listen. The employer might
answer questions before you
ask them. Other people may
ask questions that the representative will answer on the
spot. Let other people ask the
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Mr. CFO, it’s time to
tear down this wall!
Open-concept offices.
Would a workplace
free of dividers help
your team develop
a stronger sense of
community?
The next generation of employees might not find it
conducive for their work if
they set up shop in a gloomy,
no-frills environment — not
when they can work in a
space that is esthetically
pleasing.
Vito Rezza, CFO for IPG
Mediabrands, says their old
Toronto office, which housed
a couple hundred employees
for the global company, was
more like the former.
“It was really ugly. Just a
small dingy office.”
When the company decided to redesign and renovate
the space, Rezza knew it was
time for something different.
The result was a completely
open-concept space without
any private offices.
Metro talks to Rezza —
one of the driving forces
behind this office strategy
— about the effects the new
space has on the office.
Why did you decide to open
up the office like this?
We had grown from about
150 to 220 people in the
span of three years. So we
said, “We are growing and
it’s time to create the kind of
space representative of who
we are — with the ability
to share ideas and promote
creativity.”
We worked with figure3
Interior Design and in one of

Vito Rezza, the CFO for IPG Mediabrands, poses in the new office designed
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our meetings with them our
CEO said, “I think we need to
lose it.” I said, “Lose what?”
He said, “The walls and our
offices, the three private offices.” I thought about it and
it was a compelling idea.
What effect does this have
on you and the employees?
When people first saw the
floor plan, there was some
trepidation. Some people
had 20 to 30 years working
in an office, and now they
had to downsize. Afterwards
we waited weeks for people
to complain and not much
came.
We’ve all had to learn to
work a bit differently, but
the trade off has been a more
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People see each other more
now. Employees from different departments — from
finance to research — know
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For me, there were concerns because I deal with
sensitive financial information and other private matters. But I decided I had to
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People say, “Wow you’re the
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I think any organization with
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NHL

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Lions quarterback Travis Lulay pauses while speaking to reporters as players gathered for an end-of-season meeting in Surrey Tuesday. DARRYL DYCK/THE CANADIAN PRESS

Off-season surgery
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CFL. Lions’ star QB
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For the second consecutive
year, members of the B.C.
Lions were forced to clean
out their lockers weeks ahead
of when they had originally

planned.
The Lions concluded their
2013 season, and the 60th in
franchise history, with a loss
to the Saskatchewan Roughriders in the West semifinal
on Sunday.
Players and coaches gathered at the team’s Surrey
practice facility on Tuesday
for meetings, media availability and locker clean out.
Travis Lulay was at the epicentre of curiosity.
If he was still suffering any
ill effects of an injured throwing shoulder, he didn’t show
it Sunday.

The Lions star quarterback led an efficient offence
through three quarters, before the Roughriders took
over on both sides of the
football in the fourth quarter,
prompting a comeback and
ultimately a B.C. loss.
Lulay, despite the cold of
Regina, was able to throw the
ball with zip, take hits and
run without fear in what was
his first start since Sept. 15,
when he suffered a subluxation, or a partial dislocation,
of his right shoulder.
“I felt very confident going
in,” Lulay told reporters.

“I wasn’t doing anything
crazy or special but I did feel
like my eyes felt good, I threw
the ball well considering the
cold, so I expected to play
well.”
The injury forced the
Lions to shut Lulay down for
six games. Back in September, off-season shoulder surgery had not been ruled out.
It seems surgery is still a
possibility.
“I mean, (a) decision needs
to be made in the next few
weeks, so time to revisit that
again now that we’re at the
end of the year,” he said.

His conditioning stint
is over. David Booth is
back with the Vancouver
Canucks.
The Canucks announced on Tuesday
that they recalled the
oft-injured winger from
the Utica Comets of the
American Hockey League,
eight days after sending
him down to the minors.
In three games with the
Comets, Booth had one
assist. He also had six shots
on goal.
Booth’s assignment to
Utica last Monday came
just a few hours after he
skated with his Vancouver
teammates prior to their
departure to begin a fourgame road trip through
Arizona and California.
He had previously
missed the last four games
with a suspected groin
injury.
With Booth recalled,
the Canucks reassigned
Darren Archibald back to
Utica.
Injuries have played a
part in Booth’s offensive
struggles of late. The
28-year-old winger has
scored only twice in his
last 23 NHL games over the
past two seasons, although
his lockout-shortened
campaign was cut even
shorter due to a groin injury suffered in camp and
then an ankle injury in his
12th game.
“I know it’s there and I
know I can be better than
that. I really believe that,”
said Booth, who has a cap
hit of $4.25 million per season, last Monday.
The Canucks open a sixgame homestand Thursday against the San Jose
Sharks. CAM TUCKER/METRO

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Good run, but SedinsKesler line now passé
the hockey
news

San Jose-Calgary

Stuart an overtime
hero for Sharks
Brad Stuart scored 1:13 into
overtime to give the San

NHL

Ronnie Shuker
vancouver@metronews.ca

Tampa Bay
Boston
Detroit
Toronto
Montreal
Ottawa
Florida
Buffalo

WESTERN CONFERENCE

GP
18
17
19
17
19
18
19
20

W L OL
13 5 0
11 5 1
9 5 5
11 6 0
9 8 2
7 7 4
4 11 4
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Let’s hope it stays that
way. Like the guy who still
thinks it’s cool to rock brown
shoes with a black suit, Tortorella needs to admit that
this trend has had its day.
The objection to keeping the Sedins and Kesler
together isn’t about their
recent lack of production or
increased ice time. The three
are too talented not to click
again, and as professional
athletes they should be able
to put in a 20- to 25-minute
max-effort workout over a
two-and-a-half- to three-hour
period.
The problem with the
Canucks showcasing their
three best looks on the same
line is that they make every-

thing else upfront look less
snazzy. Mike Santorelli, Vancouver’s feel-good story so
far, isn’t second-line centre
material. And Alexandre Burrows, David Booth and Zack
Kassian aren’t going to find
their games on their own.
They need guys who can
feed them the puck — that
is, they need to play with
Henrik Sedin and Kesler.
Barring a trade for a No. 2
centre, the Canucks are best
served going with their classic look: the Sedins paired on
the top line and Kesler centring the second unit. That’s
what got them to the Stanley
Cup final in 2011 and that’s
their only chance of getting
there again.

THE CANADIAN PRESS

Monday’s result
Tampa Bay 22 Miami 19

CENTRAL DIVISION
GF
56
48
47
51
49
53
40
36

GA
43
30
51
40
42
56
66
63

Pt
26
23
23
22
20
18
12
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METROPOLITAN DIVISION

From left, Daniel Sedin, Henrik Sedin and Ryan Kesler during the Canucks’
game against the Coyotes on Nov. 5. After a hot start together, the trio has just
three goals and nine points in the past six games. Christian Petersen/Getty Images

Berra for the winner.
The Sharks (11-2-5)
snapped a five-game winless skid, while the Flames
(6-9-3) are winless in their
last four.

NFL

EASTERN CONFERENCE
ATLANTIC DIVISION

No one will ever accuse me
of being a fashionista, but
at least I know what doesn’t
work. And for me that means
avoiding anything trendy.
For my money, classic is the
way to go.
You see, the thing about
a trend is that it doesn’t take
long for it to turn into faux
pas. I liken it to a coach who
meticulously mixes his lines.
Sure, he may hit upon a cool
combination, but more than
likely it’s going to go out of
style soon.
So when John Tortorella
started peacocking the
Sedins-Kesler line in mid-October, it wasn’t surprising to
see it catch on and become
all the rage in Vancouver. It
was cool to see the big three
play together and turn into
the NHL’s most dominating
line over a two-week stretch.
Well, it didn’t take long
for that fad to fall out of
vogue. After scoring 10 goals
and putting up 23 points
in the first seven games
together, the trio had only
one goal and four points on
the Canucks’ recent fourgame Western road trip,
and has just three goals and
nine points in the past six
games. By the third period
of Sunday’s 3-1 loss to the
Anaheim Ducks, the line had
been split up.

Jose Sharks a 3-2 victory
over the Calgary Flames on
Tuesday.
Stuart joined the rush
and broke for the net and
had Joe Thornton’s shot deflect off him and past Reto

Review. It’s looking like
an early Christmas for
Toyota fans
MALCOLM GUNN
wheelbasemedia.com

For a small car, the Corolla
has some big numbers to
tout. Like the fact that in
47 years, Toyota has sold
more than 40 million of
them and currently operates 16 factories worldwide
that supply Corollas to 154
countries.
The all-new 11th-generation North American
sedan comes on strong with
style — especially from the
windshield forward — that
its broad base of customers are not used to seeing.
Nothing too radical, mind
you, but just enough design
drama to cause some politely muffled oohs and ahs
(see above right).
The distance between
the front and rear wheels
has increased by a whop-

ping 10 centimetres, rivalling the current segment
space champ Dodge Dart.
Note that both the Dart
and Corolla are virtually
dead-heat-even for interior volume and could almost pass for mid-sizers.
The added space between
the wheels improves front
and rear legroom slightly,
which is welcome in any
small car. Interior styling
has improved, but in a conservative way that differs
from the Corolla’s more
daring competitors. Still,
the clearly marked gauges
and switches are logically
placed and easy to decipher.
It’s only when you check
under the hood that a sense
of déjà vu really kicks in.
A 132-horsepower fourcylinder carries over from
the previous generation.
It’s connected to a sixspeed manual transmission
for the base CE and sporty
S models. A four-speed
automatic transmission is
optional for the L, while a
new continuously variable
unit (CVT) is optional for
the S, but standard on the

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LE and LE Eco.
To reduce that “rubberband” slippage sensation
that’s common to many
CVTs (including Toyota’s
Prius hybrids), engineers
dialed in seven artificial
shift points. These function
automatically to simulate
the action of a regular automatic transmission. With
the S model, they can be
manually controlled using
steering-wheel-mounted
paddles. Aside from using
a more efficient engine
with special variable valve
timing, the ECO’s figures
are achieved with the help
of underbody panels that
improve the car’s aerodynamics to reduce highwayspeed fuel consumption.
The starting-point Corolla CE, which carries a
$17,600 base price, has
a split-folding rear seat,
power windows and locks
plus a basic four-speaker
audio system. The LE/LE Eco
trims include air conditioning, 16-inch alloy wheels
(15-inch steelies are on the
CE).
You also get a backup

2014 Toyota Corolla

Design

The front end is certainly
a lot more aggressively
defined with its enlarged
lower air intake and inset
bumper. The side intakes
seem a bit oversized, but
the total effect is quite
appealing. Along with its
mostly new shape, the Corolla’s more rigid platform
supports a body that’s a
few ticks longer and wider.

camera, remote keyless
entry, heated front seats
(power-adjustable for the
driver), touch-screen display with voice recognition
and Bluetooth wireless connectivity. Opting for the
S brings with it a blackedout grille, 17-inch wheels,
heated outside mirrors and
additional instrumentation
with customizable settings.
A navigation system,
power moonroof and pushbutton start head the list of
options, along with a start/
stop system that shuts off
the engine for short per-

iods, such as at stoplights
or in stop-and-go traffic.
This, of course, saves fuel.
Despite its generally
more athletic appearance,
the Corolla is still a sensible people transporter that
carries with it a reputation
for reliability and quality
that’s the envy of the industry. You’ll need to check
elsewhere for a budgetbased pocket rocket, but
joining the millions of
contented Corolla owners
around the world will at
least put you in solid company.

This Mercedes just gets better with age
Autoknow. Over time,
base models nearly
always improve. So do
you really need anything
more than an SLK? Let’s
find out.
malcolm
gunn

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There’s a backlit icon of a
simmering coffee cup on the
SLK’s control panel.
Could it be this particular
well-optioned roadster comes
with its own coffee maker?
Perhaps the symbol flashes
intermittently whenever a
Starbucks comes into view? At
first blush, it’s impossible to
say, since the owner’s manual,
a critical tome considering
SLK’s techno-laden content,
was nowhere to be seen.
“They’re frequently missing after the cars are returned, so we keep them
here in the office,” explained
a Mercedes-Benz press-fleet
overseer.
Fortunately, an experienced Mercedes-Benz brand
hand came to the rescue, appropriately enough while
parked outside of a Starbucks.
After admiring the SLK
from top to bottom, he spied
the tiny cup-and-saucer symbol and explained that it
denotes “Attention Assist,”
which is a safety feature that’s
programmed to sense certain
driving behaviours associated
with fatigue and issues both
visual and audible warnings
for the driver to take a break.
The smell of fresh-brewed
dark roast wafting out from
the air vents could probably
work just as well.
Attention Assist is a fine
idea, but it’s hard to imagine
anyone nodding off in what

is one of the more exciting
M-B models on the market
and the best SLK that the German automaker has devised
to date.
The SLK has steadily
evolved since its 1997-modelyear North American debut.
The current generation now
looks less like an inaccurate
representation of its larger
SL-class relation and, at least
from the front, now resembles its twin. Both cars feature nearly identical upright
grilles, headlight pods and
extended hoods, along with
similar retractable hard-shell
roofs. Of course, what they
don’t even come close to sharing is their respective price
tags; the $54,300 base SLK is
offered at about one-half the
wallet hit of the SL.
Of course the SLK lacks the
SL550’s 429-horsepower twinturbo V8. In fact, the base fourcylinder SLK250 comes with a
201-horsepower four-cylinder.
This matte-grey SLK350, however, has a 302-horsepower
V6 and accompanying sevenspeed automatic transmission.
Mercedes-Benz pegs the
roadster’s zero-to-60-m.p.h.
(96 km/h) time at 5.4 seconds,
which is only about a second
off the pace of the SL. However that time is more than a
second quicker than the base
SLK250. Nice. The warp-factor
model of the triumvirate is
the SLK55 AMG that receives
the full aero kit treatment,
unique nosepiece and fancier wheels. It also sends its
power to the pavement using
a 415-horsepower 5.5-litre V8
and earns a 4.5-second zeroto-60-m.p.h. time.
Within the SLK range,
though, the 350 has a certain
just-right feel. Around town,
the V6 operates in a docile
fashion, but can quickly flex
its muscles when a squirt of
passing thrust is summoned,
or when attacking a freeway

There will never be a dull moment in the Mercedes SLK350. both photos wheelbase and Mercedes

The 350’s just-right feel

Within the SLK range, though, the 350 has a certain
just-right feel. Around town, the V6 operates in
a docile fashion, but can quickly flex its muscles
when a squirt of passing thrust is summoned, or
when attacking a freeway on-ramp.
on-ramp. The engine instantly clears its throat and delivers a distinctive and dignified
growl, while the seven-speed
automatic
imperceptibly
kicks down into the appropriate gear. The SLK makes the
entire process seem so easy,
which really enhances driving confidence. New for 2014,
the SLK350 and SLK55 AMG
are equipped with stop-start.
Whenever the car stops with
the brake pedal depressed,
the engine shuts off to save
fuel. When the accelerator is
touched, the engine fires back
up.

The best feature of the SLK
is the open-air experience.
To make a convertible out of
a coupe, the trunk lid pivots
rearward while the hard tonneau cover flips upward and
the two-piece roof stacks into
its containment spot, followed by the trunk lid resuming its original position.
The whole lowering/raising sideshow consumes about
20 seconds. The test model
was equipped with the available Magic Sky Control, consisting of a glass roof panel
that changes to opaque from
clear with the flip of a switch.

Also included is constantly
adjusting shock-damping control and a faster-acting DirectSteer system that reduces by
25 per cent the number of
lock-to-lock steering wheel
turns.
About the only item of
concern was the car’s mattefinish Designo Glacier Grey
colour scheme. The idea of an
as-tested $70,000 Mercedes
wearing what amounts to a
really dull paint job might
seem truly bizarre to some
people, almost as if the car is
in primer and awaiting a real
top coat. It also carries a sternly worded missive warning of
dire consequences should the
finish ever be polished.
The SLK test stretched into
a week of mostly sunny skies
and light Pacific Ocean-scented breezes on Vancouver Island. In other words, perfect
sports-car weather in a part of
the world that attracts plenty
of them.
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A ‘cool’ collection

Spare in a bottle

If you’re a fan of the British Broadcasting
Corporation’s Top Gear program, you’re
likely to enjoy any of a number of companion books authored by Matt Master,
which is a pseudonym for the Top Gear
producers. One of Mr. Master’s latest offerings is The Cool 500: The Coolest Cars
Ever Made. The book contains Top Gearstyle irreverent commentary about the
cars they’ve picked, the people who built
them and, in some cases, the drivers who
made them famous. The cars are considered so cool that they’re described as
“sub-zero.” The book sells for $30 to $40,
depending
on whether
you’re shopping in a
bookstore,
or online at
amazon.com.

A flat tire can occur at any time and can
involve digging out your spare and jack
from beneath your vehicle’s trunk or
load floor. A simpler solution is the Super
Spare Tire Repair from Paasch Products.
The system consists of a bottle containing
a special tire sealant, a hose that connects
from the bottle to the flat and another
transfer hose that attaches to your spare
tire, or to any other tire or tires on your
vehicle. The result is your puncture is
sealed in about two minutes and you
should have enough air in all tires to get
you to safety. The kit sells for $15, with
additional recharged bottles priced at $9.
To view the descriptive video and/or purchase this item, go to superspare.co.

Cover your pads

Tray cool car servers

Dust on your vehicle’s wheels is the
unsightly byproduct from disc brakes. One
method of significantly reducing the problem and dressing up your car at the same
time is by adding caliper covers from MGP.
The covers are made from aerospace-grade
aluminum and use a patented fastening
system for easy installation in a claimed
10 minutes. The covers are also powdercoated (a powder that’s cured in an oven)
in a variety of colours and have precisionengraved logos. A typical set of engraved
covers for most cars is priced at $200 per
set of four. They’re available through a
number of auto parts
stores or direct
from the manufacturer at calipercovers.
com.

Here’s a unique idea the next time you
have the gang over for a get-together.
Instead of using traditional snack
or candy trays, why not use a few of
these auto-replica servers from Classic
Cruisers. Each one is constructed of
cardboard that you assemble from flat
stock (you know, fold Tab A into Slot B).
Vehicles represented include 1955-’57
Chevrolet Bel Airs, the 1964 Ford Mustang, the 1958 Chevy Corvette and the
1958 Buick Century, to name just a few.
Prices start at $2 per server that you fill
yourself, or $7 including an assortment
of candy (add 25 cents per server for the
plastic food liner). Volume discounts are
also available. Go to retroplanet.com.

Are you DEF? You heard right, diesel can be clean
Jil
McIntosh

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Once used primarily in heavyduty trucks, diesel is becoming
more popular in passenger cars

in Canada. Diesel engines are
more efficient and get better
fuel economy, and as a result,
have longer range on a tank
than gasoline engines.
However, to meet strict
North American emission
standards, they require some
extra exhaust treatment. Automakers use a Selective Catalytic
Reduction (SCR) system. This includes the use of diesel exhaust
fluid, or DEF, a pre-mixed solution of urea mixed with water,
and sold under brand names
such as AdBlue.

“By the nature of their combustion process, diesel engines
put out different emissions
than gasoline engines,” says
Thomas Tetzlaff, public relations manager for Volkswagen
Canada. “Injecting very minute
quantities of urea cleans up
the nitrates in the exhaust and
allows us to reach emissions
levels that were previously impossible in a diesel car. All our
diesels are certified in all U.S.
states, including California,
which has the strictest laws on
the planet.”

Diesel exhaust contains
oxides of nitrogen, or NOx, a
compound that contributes
to smog. When small quantities of DEF are injected into
the exhaust after it leaves the
engine, it produces a chemical
reaction that converts the NOx
into nitrogen and water vapour,
both of which are harmless.
The DEF isn’t added to
the fuel tank, and it doesn’t
travel into the engine. Instead,
it’s added to a special reservoir,
with the filler neck located beside the fuel filler, in the trunk,

or under the hood, depending
on the vehicle and the manufacturer. It’s automatically dispensed into the exhaust system
as needed.
Although it’s easy for drivers
to add their own fluid, manufacturers size the reservoir so
it will generally need filling at
the same time the car is due for
its scheduled maintenance, so
the dealer can top it up at that
time. “We have a large-capacity
tank located in one of the fenders,” Tetzlaff says. “It’s filled
up mostly once a year, and it’s

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When the reservoir starts
getting low, the vehicle will
warn the driver several thousand kilometres in advance, and
continue with regular warnings
as the fluid level drops. If the reservoir runs dry, the car will continue to run, but once it’s shut
off, it won’t start again until the
DEF is replenished. The fluid
can be purchased at dealerships,
auto parts stores, and many gas
stations.

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Some used tires are lucky. After
their vehicle days are over they
go to a higher place — up on
the roof, as a rubber roofing
product from Euroshield.
Euroshield “shakes” and
“shingles” are a product line of
G.E.M. Inc. of Calgary Company
founder, Henry Kamphuis,
was bent and determined to
make something useful from
the alarming and growing
number of spent tires forming
mini-mountain ranges in the
landfills. Because of its large
volumes, he figured some kind
of building material might be
the ticket and hit upon the idea
of rubber roofing. Euroshield
gets the rubber in crumb form,
from Alberta Recycling.
“It’s like black sand when
we get it,” says Brian Eberle, Euroshield’s marketing manager,
who adds that all the steel and
nylon and non-rubber bits used
in the manufacturing of the
tires have already been weeded
out by Alberta Recycling. The
company’s sole manufacturing
plant on the outskirts of Calgary, goes through in excess of
20,000 pounds of the recycled
rubber a day.
Other companies use the
stuff, but Eberle contends Euroshield is the only one that
makes its final product with
such a high percentage of the
recycled tires — 70 per cent
versus the typical 10 per cent
found in other products (roofing and otherwise).
How many tires could be redeployed to one roofing detail?

“We tell people that on average, for say a 30-foot by 30-foot
roof, they are using anywhere
from 250 to 375 tires.”
Rubber is obviously a “premium” roofing product. A Euroshield roof would typically
cost twice as much or more
than an asphalt roof.
But could an asphalt shingle
roof withstand the blow of a
sledgehammer?
“We actually hold a Class
Four Impact Rating. … It means
the product is virtually bullet
proof when it comes to hail
strikes.” In the Calgary showroom customers are encouraged to slam down a sledgehammer as hard as they can on
a Euroshield shake or slate to
get a sense of its strength and
repellency.
“Remember, this is a rubber
roof. When the hail hits it, the
hail literally bounces off.”
And for those who have too
many images in their minds
of cracked and dried out tires
lying in the gutters to think
a roof made of old tires is going to work, Eberle reminds us
that the degradation you see
in old tires has come about because it has weakened around
the fibres and cords that enabled it to be a tire in the first
place. These products are not
tires.
“We re-form these pieces
into new parts. They aren’t going down the highway. There is
no metal or fibre in them. And
for UV protection, there is carbon black, found naturally in
rubber and one of the world’s
best UV inhibitors. Our products are extremely stable.”

The products were also specifically designed to look like,
and act like current roofing
products so they would be eas-

ily installed and embraced by
the “regular” roofing guys.
Old tires to premium roof ?
Not a bad bounce back.

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Horoscopes

Aries

March 21 - April 20
What looks so confusing now
will look a lot easier by the
end of the week, so don’t
worry if you cannot make
sense of events. That applies
especially to money matters
and business issues.

Taurus

April 21 - May 21
Activity in your opposite sign
of Scorpio will bring you up
against someone who is like
you in personality but has
different views on how things
should be done. Sparks may
fly but you can work together.

Gemini

May 22 - June 21
Be wary of people who arrive
bearing gifts. With Neptune,
planet of illusion, strong in
your chart, you should
consider the possibility that
they are hoping to trick you.

Cancer

June 22 - July 23
The next few days will be
good but why settle for good
when they could be great?
Define your goals and avoid
activities that are wasteful of
your time and energy — no
matter how fun they are.

Leo

July 24 - Aug. 23
You may think if you don’t
act quickly you will miss the
boat but it isn’t true and what
occurs over the next 24 hours
will encourage you to calm
down and slow down.

Virgo

Aug. 24 - Sept. 23
You cannot cure the world of
its woes, but you can help
people on a one-to-one basis.
Whatever else you do or don’t
do today, aim to be a good
example. Yes, it’s enough.

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Crossword: Canada Across and Down

Libra

Sept. 24 - Oct. 23
It may feel as if the fun is almost over, but it isn’t true. Yes,
you will have to get serious
about work issues today and
tomorrow but you will also
have time to enjoy yourself.

Scorpio

Oct. 24 - Nov. 22
The Sun in your sign continues
to fill you with energy and you
should be using it to bring
creative ideas to life. What
looked impossible yesterday
will look the easiest thing in
the world today. Go for it.

Sagittarius

Nov. 23 - Dec. 21
A week and a bit from now
the Sun will move into your
birth sign and your mood will
lighten, but today you are
likely to be overly sensitive
about everything. Keep your
emotions in check.

Capricorn

Dec. 22 - Jan. 20
The pace of life will pick up
today, so hold on and enjoy
the ride. If you get the chance
to participate in some kind of
social event do so, even if it
means extra work.

Aquarius

Jan. 21 - Feb. 19
You are right to be pleased by
the things you’ve accomplished but there is a lot more
you can do, so don’t start
winding down yet. A new
opportunity will come your
way over the next few days.

Pisces

Feb. 20 - March 20
Neptune, your ruler, ends its
retrograde phase today, which
suggests you may change your
mind about what you consider
important. Try not to be too
idealistic. SALLY BROMPTON